Power Quotes
Liberal: a power worshipper without power.George Orwell
To make no mistakes is not in the power of man; but from their errors and mistakes the wise and good learn wisdom for the future.Plutarch
The struggle of man against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting.Milan Kundera, The Book of Laughter and Forgetting
What an immense power over the life is the power of possessing distinct aims. The voice, the dress, the look, the very motions of a person, define and alter when he or she begins to live for a reason.Elizabeth Stuart Phelps
Idealism is the noble toga that political gentlemen drape over their will to power.Aldous Huxley
The greatest mystery is not that we have been flung at random between the profusion of matter and of the stars, but that within this prison we can draw from ourselves images powerful enough to deny our nothingness.Andre Malraux
We know very little, and yet it is astonishing that we know so much, and still more astonishing that so little knowledge can give us so much power.Bertrand Russell
Prejudice is the conjurer of imaginary wrongs, strangling truth, overpowering reason, making strong men weak and weak men weaker. God give us the large hearted charity which bearth all things, believe all things, hope all things, endure all things, which thinks no evil.Macduff
Lust of power burns more fiercely than all the passions combined.Blessing Irish
Physics does not change the nature of the world it studies, and no science of behavior can change the essential nature of man, even though both sciences yield technologies with a vast power to manipulate their subject matters.B. F. Skinne
The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.Edmund Burke
There are only two kinds of freedom in the world; the freedom of the rich and powerful, and the freedom of the artist and the monk who renounces possessions.Anais Nin
Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and misguided men.Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963
Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for. success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.Vaclav Havel
From social intercourse are derived some of the highest enjoyments of life; where there is a free interchange of sentiments the mind acquires new ideas, and by frequent exercise of its powers, the understanding gains fresh vigor.Joseph Addison
Believe in yourself Have faith in your abilities Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.Norman Vincent Peale
When I was young, I used to think that wealth and power would bring me happiness... I was right.Gahan Wilson
Real, constructive mental power lies in the creative thought that shapes your destiny, and your hour - By - Hour mental conduct produces power for change in your life. Develop a train of thought on which to ride. The nobility of your life as well as your happiness depends upon the direction in which that train of thought is going.Laurence J. Pete
On the mountains of truth you can never climb in vain: either you will reach a point higher up today, or you will be training your powers so that you will be able to climb higher tomorrow.Friedrich Nietzsche
Austin Powers Do I make you horny Randy Do I make you horny, baby, yeah, do I.Austin Powers International Man of Mystery
Because a thing is difficult for you, do not therefore suppose it to be beyond mortal power. On the contrary, if anything is possible and proper for man to do, assume that it must fall within your own capacity.Marcus Aurelius, Meditations? Book Six
The greatest of all gifts is the power to estimate things at their true worth.La Rochefoucauld
Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time.Aristotle, Physics
Knowledge is power. Knowledge shared is power multiplied.Robert Noyce, Article, interview in a magazine
Dream no small dreams for they have no power to move the hearts of men.Johann von Goethe
It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. For there is a reserve of latent power in the masses which, if it is called into play, the minority can seldom resist. But from the absolute will of an entire people there is no appeal, no redemption, no refuge but treason.Lord Acton
Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solved each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They kept going regardless of the obstacles they met.Clement Stone
The thirst for adventure is the vent which Destiny offers a war, a crusade, a gold mine, a new country, speak to the imagination and offer swing and play to the confined powers.Ralph Waldo Emerson
Liberty has never come from the government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.Nadia Boulange
Nothing else in the world... not all the armies... is so powerful as an idea whose time has come.Victor Hugo
When one is trying to do something beyond his known powers it is useless to seek the approval of friends. Friends are at their best in moments of defeat.Henry Mille
Oh would some power the giftie gie us, to see ourselves as others see us.Robert Burns, To A Louse
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.Stephen King
I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.Thomas Jefferson
When the power of love overcomes the love of power, then the world will know peace.Jimi Hendrix
Power never takes a back step - Only in the face of more power.Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965
The sole advantage of power is that you can do more good.Baltasar Gracian, The Art of Worldly Wisdom, 1647
